Posted by bleauberry on September 21, 2009, at 4:36:27
In reply to Running out of options, posted by Monica L on September 20, 2009, at 18:27:08
If you don't have an Integrative MD then you have not come anywhere close to trying everything that can improve or cure depression. You don't know if you have heavy metals, Lyme, candida, adrenal dysfunction, pituitary dysfunction, a number of other parasitic organisms that invade the brain, or what. All you know is that increasing serotonin, norepinephrine, or dopamine has been a deadend road, which should tell you the depression is more complicated than that.
I was at a St Johns Wort forum the other day and guy was just so excited because he had been on every SSRI/SNRI there is, but now on SJW he finally feels great. I am not saying go take SJW. I am saying, outside of psychiatry, this stuff happens. It really happens. There is a bigger world of options than the psychiatrist office. Similar stories with things like Rhodiola, 5htp, Doxycycline, DMSA, Siberian Ginseng, and and on. When psych drugs fail, there is something else, someimes a lot better.
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